History - Contemporary (1945- )
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The Twilight of Bohemia: Westbeth and the Last Artists of New York
$30.00 Add to cartAn intimate history of America’s first publicly funded artists’ housing project and its residents that casts light on the precarious place of art-makers in a changing New York.
Westbeth Artists Housi- Author: Trachtenberg, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1574232517
- Language: English
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Mirrormirror: The Reflective Surface in Contemporary Art
$65.00 Add to cartFrom the art of Cindy Sherman to Anish Kapoor, from Yayoi Kusama to Tracey Emin, MirrorMirror presents an intriguing and gloriously illustrated global survey of “reflective” work by more than 150 arti
- Author: Petry, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0500026203
- Language: English
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Rogues and Scholars: A History of the London Art World: 1945-2000
$35.00 Add to cartA colorful and fast-moving account of how postwar London became the global center of the art market–a story of Impressionist masterpieces, dodgy dealers, and ground-breaking financial transactions.
O- Author: Stourton, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 163936823X
- Language: English
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A Book about Ray
$54.95 Add to cartThe first full-career survey of the idiosyncratic life and work of Ray Johnson, a collagist, performance artist, and pioneer of mail art.
Ray Johnson (1927-1995), a.k.a. “New York’s most famous unknow
- Author: Levy, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 262048744
- Language: English
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Korean Feminist Artists: Confront and Deconstruct
$79.95 Read moreExplore the vibrant history and profound cultural resonance of feminist art from Korea and the diaspora
Renowned curator and scholar Dr. Kim Hong-hee’s book is the first to delve into Korean feminist
- Author: Hong-Hee, Kim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1838667059
- Language: English
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Carsten H?ller. Book of Games
$58.33 Add to cartCarsten H?ller invites readers to disrupt their daily lives with 336 mind-expanding diversions. They can be played alone, in pairs or in teams, in the street, in bed, on a train, wherever. No props or
- Author: H?ller, Carsten
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 760
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 3836582236
- Language: English
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Nicole Eisenman
$59.99 Read moreWith a body of work that explores a broad spectrum of subjects–from lesbianism and feminism to contemporary politics and the natural world–Nicole Eisenman (b.1965) challenges convention and encourag… [more below]
- Series: Contemporary Painters
- Author: Cameron, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1848224508
- Language: English
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How Banksy Saved Art History
$35.00 Add to cartFew would dispute that Banksy is the most famous urban artist in the world today. That he is also a perceptive art historian might come as a surprise to many. Taken together, the myriad memorable work
- Author: Grovier, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0500027056
- Language: English
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Gerhard Richter: Painting After the Subject of History
$49.95 Read moreThe first full-scale monographic study in English of one of the most important artists of the second half of the twentieth century.
In this first full-scale monograph in English on the German painter- Series: October Books
- Author: Buchloh, Benjamin H. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0262543532
- Language: English
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Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club
$50.00 Read moreThe first book to feature Jacob Lawrence’s Nigeria series, this richly illustrated volume also highlights Africa’s place as a global center of modernist art and culture
This revelatory book shines a- Author: Gant, Kimberli
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0300263171
- Language: English
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A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China
$60.00 Read moreA lively tour through experimental Chinese photography from the early 1990s to today
The past thirty years were dynamic, transformative decades in Chinese photography. Artists exposed to recent work- Author: Chiu, Melissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0300269889
- Language: English
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This Is Warhol
$15.95 Read moreAndy Warhol, the iconic Pop artist, presented himself as the vacuous, dumb kid, famously saying, “If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings . and there I am. … [more below]
- Series: Artists Monographs
- Author: Ingram, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1780670141
- Language: English
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Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy
$34.95 Read moreOn turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic tranquility for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the change of the seasons; a place to keep the madness of the world at bay. So when C
- Author: Gayford, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 0500094365
- Language: English
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Banksy: Completed
$39.95 Read moreThere’s more to Banksy than the painting on the wall: the first in-depth investigation into the mysteries of the world’s most famous living artist.
Banksy is the world’s most famous living artist, yet- Author: Diehl, Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0262046245
- Language: English
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Asian Art Now
$60.00 Read moreThe remarkable phenomenon of the twenty-first-century art world is contemporary Asian art. Fueled by a newfound openness in the East, and by an economic boom that has promoted a vibrant cultural confi… [more below]
- Author: Chiu, Melissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 1580932983
- Language: English
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Merchants of Style: Art and Fashion After Warhol
$30.00 Read moreLooking at Andy Warhol’s legacy as maker and muse, this book offers a critical examination of the coalescence of commerce and style.
Merchants of Style explores the accelerating convergence of art and- Author: Degen, Natasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1789146690
- Language: English
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude
$23.33 Add to cartThe work of the artist couple Christo (1935-2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) resists categorization. It is a hybrid of art, urban planning, architecture, and engineering, but above all an aesthetic
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Baal-Teshuva, Jacob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 3836524090
- Language: English
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The Story of Contemporary Art
$39.95 Add to cartAn instant classic–a lively new introduction to contemporary art that stretches from Andy Warhol’s Brillo boxes to Marina Abramovic’s performance art to today’s biennale circuit and million-dollar au… [more below]
- Author: Godfrey, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0262044102
- Language: English
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Speculation
$26.95 Read moreA wide-ranging investigation of what speculation is, and what is at stake for artistic, curatorial, critical, and institutional practices in relating to their own speculative character.
Engaging with- Author: Vishmidt, Marina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545330
- Language: English
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Stolen
$24.95 Read moreFor the first time in twenty-seven years, The Gardner Museum has authorized a book on the daring theft from the Museum of thirteen priceless works of art, including three Rembrandts and Vermeer’s The … [more below]
- Author: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: April 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1944038523
- Language: English
